Our second full week

The King James Library.

Many thanks to those who have been praying for us this week; our best news is that we’ve found a house! Our new home, starting on February 1st, is just a few houses away on the same street (this will make moving without a car much easier!). It is a really lovely home with three bedrooms, so Kate can finally pick her own music to listen to at night. Let us know if you would like our new address!
 
My fellow Senior Research Fellow arrived this week, Kevin Diller, a philosopher from Taylor University. We had the pleasure of meeting at some Logos events in the past and at Gethsemane Episcopal Church when Lance and I taught at IWU. We look forward to getting to know he and his family better over the next few months. I also discovered the King James Library, the holdings of St. Mary’s College. It is a beautiful space, full of Bible and Theology books, and the fact that King James the VI (or I) founded it is pretty cool.

This week Kate, Maxson, and Kindred have been very into drawing, especially Maxson. They have found these videos called Art Hub for Kids that show how to make your own cartoon drawings. Kindred loves drawing superheroes and Lego guys; Kate really likes drawing cute treats; and Maxson’s goal is to draw everything (he’s gotten pretty far!).

Kate has joined a couple of clubs this week at her school! On Monday, she joined Musical Theater. She said it was pretty fun because she will learn to be a triple threat: she has to dance, sing, and act! They will do a couple of performances, and they also do something for Robert Burns day. On Thursday Kate joined GLEE club, which is a singing club. They go to competitions and do solos and duets. There are judges and they determine which GLEE is the best. They have to do a song prescribed by the judges, and they get to pick one. (Go Kate!)

The week started off pretty rough for Maxson as he was adamantly opposed to trying school lunch, with weeping and gnashing of teeth (literally). By the end of the week, however, he was trying mincemeat pie and loving it! We’ll see how they feel about haggis for lunch on Thursday of this week (for Robert Burns Day).

Kindred, it seems, has found some fellow computer enthusiasts, William and Thomas by name. They have arranged a system of taking turns with the computer in his nursery school, and it sounds like they have tried a few other games too, like cops and police (no robbers in almost crime-free St. Andrews, it seems).

At Anstruther

On Friday, we went to go see Coco at the small theater in our downtown. In its small snack shop, we got some delicious sweet and salty popcorn. We went into the third screen and were flabbergasted. The theater was a little bigger than our living room! The movie was great but sad and the popcorn and nachos were amazing! We were a little worried about theological references in the movie, but the heartwarming story provided a great springboard for good conversation! (The only bad thing was that they didn’t show the Olaf short!).

On Saturday, we took the bus to the fishing village of Anstruther. Its quaint beauty really can’t be captured in either words or pictures. We walked the pier to the lighthouse and searched for shells and seaglass on the beach. Then, we had a fantastic lunch with my Hebrews colleague David Moffitt and his lovely family. His sons, though in Jr High and High School, were very obliging to play Lego and Star Wars with our boys.

Thanks to those who have Skyped with us and emailed. We look forward to hearing how you are doing! We miss you all!